Web design

How successful is your website?

Page views.

To measure the success of your website you need statistics as well as goals. A sophisticated stats package like the free Google Analytics is very helpful. Don’t fall into the trap of just measuring ‘hits’.

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Who do you think you’re talking to?

Website warning.

One of the first things to know about your own website is who its intended audience is. Your website should use appropriate language and tone for that audience. If your site’s aimed at 20 year old members of the general public don’t use academic language, for example.

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Does your website stop people from donating to your cause?

Red Cross NZ donate now button.

Jakob Nielsen’s testing found that charities need to make the information on their sites much clearer and much easier to find.

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Quick and easy page previews for web designers

Safari cache folder.

If you make web pages and use a Mac, you probably have previews of any web pages you visit in Safari without needing to make screenshots yourself. Here’s how to find those images.

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A flip of the coin – accessibility, the web and us

VoiceOver reads links from a web page

The problem with ‘web accessibility’ as a special accommodation is that disability is gone today and here tomorrow: our ‘abilities’ may be fleeting, sporadic, temporary, and erratic. We are all now or will be at some time ‘disabled’.

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Look again: is that domain notice a scam?

Domain scam.

Scammers abound, especially when it comes to domain names. Take care out there.

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